Description: This book is subtitled 'The Royal Naval Patrol Service, 1939-1945, The Veterans' Stories'. Anyone with an interest in the Second World War at sea will find this volume a useful source of information about this little known branch of the navy. This is not a chronological history, but life in the R.P.N.S. as seen from the veterans' point of view. Fred Featherbe, himself a veteran of Harry Tate's Navy, has put together this collection of anecdotes which illustrate the life aboard, duties and operations of the R.P.N.S. on their motley collection of requisitioned trawlers, paddle steamers and yachts. It gives a taste of their operational activities including minesweeping, escort duties and anti-submarine work in various theatres of war from the North Atlantic to the Far East.